She died in middle age and her husband wrote a memoir of her.

_Discipline_ seems to represent a sort of fancy combination of the life she might have led and the life she did lead.

Ellen Percy, the heroine, starts in the highest circles; forgets herself so far as to "waltz_e_" with a noble ne'er-do-weel, thereby earning the "stern disapprobation" of a respectable lover; comes down in the world; has Highland experiences which, at the book's early date, are noteworthy; marries (like her creatress) a minister; but "retains a little of her coquettish sauciness." "Bless her, poor little dear!" one can imagine Thackeray exclaiming in his later and mellowed days.

Mrs.
Brunton's letters breathe a lady-like and not unamiable propriety, and she is altogether a sort of milder, though actually earlier, Miss Ferrier.
Ireland vindicated its claim to comparative liveliness in the work of a better known contemporary and survivor.

Lady Morgan's (Miss Sydney Owenson's) _Wild Irish Girl_ (1806) is one of the books whose titles have prolonged for them a kind of shadowy existence.